For all of you bodybuilders out there...

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Bodybuilding & Weightlifting on the Raw Food Diet

 

On the High Intensity Training page of this website, I made

reference to Dr. Darden's new book, The New High Intensity Training,

and how we differed in our opinions on diet. I will credit Dr.

Darden with the fact that he has studied nutrition and is convinced

that a high protein diet is not required for bodybuilding. It's just

that I've gone one step further on the the raw food diet. And I

don't blame Dr. Darden at all, because after all, the raw food diet

is known about at the current time by so very few people, he's

probably never heard of or studied it. Given the time and presented

with the research and facts, I'm sure Dr. Darden would come to the

same conclusions I have, for I'm sure he's a very intelligent man

judging from the books he has authored.

 

Consider what Dr. Darden wrote on page 229 of his book. He

spent several years working with a Dr. Harold Schendel who worked

with starving children in Africa. His story is that initially, in an

effort to provide good nutrition and save starving children, doctors

would force feed these children high protein diets. The children got

worse. The doctors quickly realized that what these children needed

were calories, and that by eating simple, not complex carbohydrates -

their condition improved. They used a mush mixture of water, sugar,

fatty acids, with small amounts of protein, vitamins, and minerals.

 

Now I ask you, after reading this passage, the answer is

perfectly clear to me, is it to you? What they really fed these

children is a food that is quite similar to fruit, the food that

humans are designed to eat. Wouldn't it have been interesting to see

how these starving children would have improved if given a raw food

diet consisting mostly of fresh fruits?

 

 

Where do you get your protein?

 

That's the question I'm continually asked, " Where do you get

your protein? " It's as if all one has to do is eat protein and

muscles grow on you automatically. My opinion is that there are

several factors besides protein that affect how big you can grow

your muscles....

 

To read more from this interesting and informative website, go to

http://charliesgym.info/wst_page2.html

 

S~~

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Thank you so much for all of your post and this link!

 

I too don't believe in taking supplements. I guess I might be more

into a natural diet. It seems to me if we were eating naturaly and

properly, that supplements would not be necassary.

 

I have been feeding and studying raw/species appropriate diets for my

dogs for several years now. It is amazing at the change in overall

health.

It is also what has sparked me to look at my own diet and study a more

natural and simple way of eating for my own health.

I only wish I had the same enthusiasm when raw foods are put in front

of me as my dogs do when I give them a quarter of a raw chicken. Oh my

goodness, they LOVE it.

 

Belinda

 

> To read more from this interesting and informative website, go to

> http://charliesgym.info/wst_page2.html

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> S~~

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